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05/02/2024

Something to help yourself think about your thinking, and also give your doctor and counselor a better idea of what you’re experiencing, is to make a list of all the medications you’re taking, including vitamins or other herbal supplements, and the dosages and frequencies.

04/30/2024

Counseling is one of the most effective means available today to help patients deal with their symptoms of OCD, and there are new techniques available every day that a good counselor can try to help any particular patient.

04/25/2024

Although the symptoms of OCD can be masked somewhat in a social setting, more than one in 50 people suffers from this potentially debilitating condition. That's about 3.3 million people in the U.S. alone.

04/23/2024

Did you know? Animals can develop OCD behaviors such as obsessive feather pulling, bar chewing and compulsive grooming as a response to stress and anxiety

04/18/2024

OCD often presents as perfectionism and belief that they cannot afford to make mistakes and an intolerance for uncertainty of negative events, as well as catastrophizing those events.

04/16/2024

It’s important to remember that having OCD doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll suffer from both obsessions and compulsions. While about 80% of OCD sufferers do have both, the remaining 20% suffer from one or the other.

04/11/2024

Did you know that approximately 80% of people living with OCD have both obsessions and compulsions? 20% have only obsessions or only compulsions as it affects everybody differently.

04/09/2024

OCD may be one of those diseases that challenges the patient and their whole family- but it’s also one of those diseases that can usually be handled effectively with a combination of medications and counseling to learn new coping strategies. Why suffer any longer?

04/04/2024

One type of OCD is washing, where those suffering are afraid of contamination, which means they have severe cleaning or hand-washing compulsions.

04/02/2024

If you do opt to try a medication to help control your obsessive-compulsive disorder, it’s critical that you give it adequate time to work. Generally, it will take at least 10 weeks of continuous use before it’s possible to judge whether it works for you.

03/28/2024

Neurotransmitter dysfunction or low serotonin levels are often connected to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and scientists and experts in brain function have discovered that depression, anxiety or mental illness can trigger the symptoms of OCD.

03/26/2024

A number of tests can help determine the severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The results may help counselors determine the best course of treatment. One such aid is the Yale–Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale.

03/21/2024

Don’t all people have obsessions and compulsions? That is true, according to experts. The difference is that people with OCD feel as though they must perform certain actions – called rituals – to handle the anxiety and stress triggered by the obsessions. An obsession with germs could lead to repetitive hand-washing, for example.

03/19/2024

OCD compulsions are often referred to as rituals because they can appear as ritualized behaviors to outside observers and actually do have an almost ceremonial component. OCD rituals may occur any time of day, but sometimes escalate at bedtime.

03/14/2024

Studies indicate that those who develop OCD early tend to have a more gradual appearance of symptoms, but people who develop it later may experience symptoms that come on more quickly, and are usually event-triggered.

03/12/2024

People may start to show signs of OCD as early as preschool and as late as adulthood. There are two common ranges when OCD often first presents: ages 10-12 or 18-25.

03/07/2024

What is an example of exposure and response prevention therapy? Let’s say one of your obsessions is becoming seriously ill because of the spread of germs and the ritual you perform to address that anxiety is washing your hands at least every 10 minutes. As part of ERP therapy, you would spend at least two hours without being allowed to wash your hands.

03/05/2024

Stress is a major trigger of OCD symptoms. Keeping stress levels in check will help to reduce the severity and frequency of a person’s symptoms. Providing tools to effectively do this is one of the many ways that therapy can help.

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24 2nd Avenue NE
Hickory, NC
28601

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Monday 9am - 5pm
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Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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